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Do potato cannons count?
by tbrownaw 9mo ago
Do potato cannons count?
- stefanfisk 9mo agoThe could if lawmakers wanted them to. Here in Sweden potato guns are actually illegal if the potato achieves 10+ joule.
- Zak 9mo agoThat's effectively a complete ban as a thrown potato would have considerably more energy than that. A quick web search suggests professional baseball pitchers achieve ~130J, and a potato is roughly comparable to a baseball in mass.
- stefanfisk 9mo agoYep. I'm not saying that I'm for it, just that writing a law that bans them isn't all that hard.
- wombatpm 9mo agoI had friends who would scour the produce isle to find potatoes they could cut down to fit their potato gun with a rifled barrel.